At one end of all those chairs, you will find… all sorts of strange people.

Like the ones that choose to wear some sort of t-shirts over the head…

If you wait around for a little while, you’ll understand how helpful those T-shirts are, for those strange people intend to carry what they call « Pasos ».

What’s a Paso? It’s some sort of statue. Something like that :

They intend to carry that around the town. Some pasos are « easy » to carry around for they keep their wheels. But some others are much harder to move around because, for some traditional reason, they chose to take off the wheels and let men and women carry it on their shoulders.

To do so, you’ll need more or less 20 people. All of them will go under the paso so people around will only get a glimpse of their shoes.

As you can guess, it’s not so easy for those 20 personnes to move the Paso around. They need to be precisely coordinated so they all share equally their burden and they follow the right road.

For that, they have a couple of guides telling them when to move, to stop or to turn, and more specially :telling them when they can rest. For that purpose, the pasos all have some sort of door knocker that reverberate on the wood of the paso so all persons under it can hear it.

Clac!

You can hear them coordinating underneath the pas.

And ….

WLOUMP!

The paso literally jumps up an goes into motion under a storm of applause.

That’s quite impressive and mostly anonymous.

Cheers to those anonymous feet under those very famous personnages!